[Sca-cooks] Learn something new every day ;-)

[Rosalyn MacGregor]

Salt is really great for killing bacteria.

Yours,
Rosalyn MacGregor
(Pattie Rayl)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M. Traber" <mtraber251 at earthlink.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Learn something new every day ;-)


> Phlip wrote:
>
> > Was soaking some chicken in salt water a bit ago, in preparation for
> > packaging and freezing it, and since the regular salt vanished, I
grabbed
> > the Kosher salt. Got to reading the box, and discovered that my family's
> > habit of salting the chicken before use was actually koshering it- never
> > knew that before. We've always done it because it makes it taste better-
> > gets all that nasty slaughtering plant taste and odor out of it. Wonder
> > where my mother picked up the habit?
> regular salt is on the edge of the cutting board behind the powdered
garlic.
>
> dont know, my mom does it, she learned  it from her mother. she is of
> amish stock moved to iowa in the 1800s.
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